Guaco

Mikania, Climbing Hemp Weed

Boericke, Pocket Manual of Homœopathic Materia Medica, 9th ed., 1927, p. 314

Acts on nervous system and female organs. Antidote to bites of scorpions and serpents. [Golondrina.] Cholera. Bulbar paralysis. Syphilis. Cancer. Deafness—tongue heavy and difficult to move. Spinal irritation. Spinal symptoms most marked and verified. Beer drinkers threatened with apoplexy. Diarrhœa and dysentery with aching in sacrum and loins.

Headache, red face. Heaviness and difficulty in moving tongue.

Throat

Larynx and trachea constricted; difficult deglutition. Tongue feels heavy, difficult to move.

Female.—Leucorrhœa copious, corroding, putrid, debilitating. Itching and smarting at night, as if fire were running out of parts,

Urine p. 315

Increased, cloudy, phosphatic. Pain over region of bladder.

Back p. 315

Pain between scapule, extending to forearm. Burning in nape of shoulders. Pain along spine; worse, bending. Weariness through hips and lumbar region.

Extremities p. 315

Pain in deltoid, shoulders, elbows, arms, and fingers. Pain about hip-joint. Legs heavy. Pain in ankle-joints and soles. Paralysis of lower extremities.

Modalities p. 315

Worse, from motion.

Relationship p. 315

Compare: Oxal. ac.; Lathyr.; Caust.

The book’s Dose section is left out: Samepath quotes the books but gives no dosing advice.

Guaco in the other books